When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
JOHN VIANNEYAll that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
More John Vianney Quotes
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The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Sin is the assassin of the soul.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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